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Robert Reich | Worrisome Thoughts on the Way to the Jobs Summit
Most ideas for creating more jobs assume jobs will return when the economy recovers. So the immediate goal is to accelerate the process. A second stimulus would be helpful, …
2,600 Bodies Found in Kashmir Graves: Report
Srinagar, India - Nearly 2,600 bodies have been discovered in single unmarked and mass graves throughout mountainous Indian Kashmir, human rights activists said Wednesday, alleging some of the dead …
New York State Lawmakers Vote Against Gay Marriage
Edith Honan, Reuters reports:
Robert Borosage | Imperial Blues
..."[O]ur troop commitment in Afghanistan cannot be open-ended — because the nation that I am most interested in building is our own." —President Obama But Afghanistan comes …
Obama’s Afghan ‘Strategy’
Shortly after President Obama's Afghanistan War escalation speech, I was contacted by the Voice of America's Russian Language Service. They wanted to interview me. These are the questions they …
Broad Provision in Immigration Law Results in Refugees, Asylum Seekers Being Labeled Terrorists
Thousands of legitimate refugees and asylum seekers — who pose no danger to the United States and who have committed no acts of wrongdoing — are being labeled “terrorists” …
Aging Coal Plants Take a Heavy Environmental Toll
U.S. power plants dumped 2.56 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the environment in 2007 — and much of that came from the nation's older coal-fired plants.
Elections in Honduras: Whitewashing the Path to a Past of Horrors
I came to Honduras with the School of the Americas Watch/Quixote Center Accompaniment Delegation to participate as a human rights observer of the electoral climate in a delegation organized …
A Humanitarian Disaster in the Making Along the Chad-Cameroon Oil Pipeline – Who’s Watching?
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Documents Reveal New Information About Destruction of Torture Tapes
Alex Abdo, The Hill reports that the American Civil Liberties Union claims documents show new information about destroyed videotapes of interrogations and of White House participation dating back to …